Magurix

Magurix (299 BC-) was King of Galatia from 272 BC. He led the Galatians down the warpath with the neighboring Greek states of Anatolia in a series of wars which devastated the peninsula.

Biography
Magurix was born in 299 BC to the Galatians, a migratory Celtic people who ultimately settled in central Anatolia in a region later named "Galatia". He had an affinity for Hellenic culture, but not for Galatia's Hellenic neighbors. In 272 BC, Magurix began a series of wars against the Greek city-states of Anatolia, including Sardes, Pergamon, Cyprus, and Bithynia, conquering a whole quarter of the peninsula. However, Pontus intervened in order to prevent the Galatians from becoming too much of a threat, and the Pontians conquered his capital of Ancyra and the city of Iconium, which he had captured from Sardes. However, he succeeded in conquering the Bithynians and used their capital of Nicomedia as his new home base, and he made peace with Pontus, as he was willing to focus on resuming his absorption of the smaller Greek states.